Commonwealth Club Address by 罗斯福
美国名人100大演讲mp3下载请点我（bt下载）i count it a privilege to be invited to address the commonwealth club. it has stood in the life of this city and state, and it is perhaps accurate to add, the nation, as a group of citizen leaders interested in fundamental problems of government, and chiefly concerned with achievement of progress in government through non-partisan means. the privilege of addressing you, therefore, in the heat of a political campaign, is great. i want to respond to your courtesy in terms consistent with your policy.
i want to speak not of politics but of government. i want to speak not of parties, but of universal principles. they are not political, except in that larger sense in which a great american once expressed a definition of politics, that nothing in all of human life is foreign to the science of politics...
the issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government of economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women. this question has persistently dominated the discussion of government for many generations. on questions relating to these things men have differed, and for time immemorial it is probable that honest men will continue to differ.
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